2017 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop

Microlensing in the Era of WFIRST

Agenda

A listing of the POP/poster presentations, along with abstracts, can be found here.

Presentations will be viewable

Unless otherwise noted, the workshop will take place in Hameetment Auditorium on the first floor of the Cahill Building at Caltech.

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hands on sessions information and exercises

Click on the "view video" link after the talk title to view each presentation. Full resolution versions of these videos are available on the Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop YouTube channel.

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Sunday, August 6

Registration Gathering at Cahill patio, Caltech

• 4-6 pm: Please join us on the patio on the south side of the Cahill Building for the opportunity to register and greet colleagues. We'll have light snacks available but you'll want to get dinner afterwards.

Monday, August 7

• 9:00 am: Welcome and Opening Comments — Dawn Gelino (NExScI), Roberta Paladini (IPAC/NExScI)
• 9:20 am: Introduction to Microlensing Theory and Observations | (view video) — Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory)
• 10:20 am: Attendee Pops (6)
• 10:40 am: Morning Coffee Break
• 11:10 am: Microlensing Phenomenology | (view video) — Scott Gaudi (The Ohio State University)
• 12:10 pm: Parallaxes: Orbital, Terrestrial, and Satellite | (view video) — Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
• 12:50 pm: Lunch
• 2:10 pm: The K2C9 Microlens Parallax Campaign | (view video) — Calen Henderson (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
• 2:40 pm: Higher Order Effects: Binary Lenses and Binary Sources | (view video) — David Bennett (NASA GSFC)
• 3:30 pm: Afternoon Coffee Break
• 3:55 pm: Hands-On Session Intro — Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) and Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
• 4:15 pm: Hands-On Session I: Classification — Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
• 6:15 pm: Adjourn

Tuesday, August 8

• 9:00 am: Microlensing Planet Discoveries | (view video) — Yossi Shvartzvald (JPL)
• 9:40 am: High-Resolution Follow-up of Microlensing Planets | (view video) — Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP)
• 10:10 am: The Mass Function of Planets Measured from Microlensing | (view video) — Daisuke Suzuki (JAXA)
• 10:40 am: Attendee Pops (5)
• 10:55 am: Morning Coffee Break
• 11:25 am: Free-floating Planets from Microlensing | (view video) — Takahiro Sumi (Osaka University)
• 12:05 pm: The Observed Distribution of Planets | (view video) — Christian Clanton (NASA Ames)
• 12:45 pm: Lunch
• 2:00 pm: Dark Matter and the Hunt for Black Holes | (view video) — Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw)
• 2:40 pm: Chemical Evolution and the Mass Function of Stellar Mass Black Holes | (view video) — Benoit Cote (University of Victoria)
• 3:20 pm: Afternoon Coffee Break
• 3:40 pm: The NASA Exoplanet Archive and ExoFOP: Community Resources for Exoplanetary Microlensing | (view video) — Calen Henderson (Caltech/IPAC-NExScI)
• 4:00 pm: Hands-On Session II (Keith-Spalding Building, 4th floor): Qualitative Interpretation of Microlensing Light Curves — Jennifer Yee (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
• 6:00 pm: Adjourn

Wednesday, August 9

• 9:00 am: Single-Lens Linear Fitting | (view video) — Scott Gaudi (The Ohio State University)
• 9:30 am: Fitting 2-Body Microlensing Light Curves: MCMC, Lightcurve Libraries and Other Techniques | (view video) — Valerio Bozza (University of Salerno)
• 10:15 am: Morning Coffee Break
• 10:30 am: Fitting 2-Body Microlensing Light Curves: MCMC, Lightcurve Libraries and Other Techniques | (view video) — Valerio Bozza (University of Salerno)
• 11:30 am: Hands-on Session III (Keith-Spalding Building, 4th floor): Fitting Microlensing Light Curves — Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
• 12:30 pm: Lunch
• 1:45 pm: Hands-on Session III: Fitting Microlensing Light Curves (continued) — Etienne Bachelet (LCO)
• 2:45 pm: Afternoon Coffee Break and Poster Session
• 3:30 pm: Planet Population Synthesis | (view video) — Yann Alibert (University of Bern)
• 4:30 pm: Formation of Planets on Wide Orbits | (view video) — Kaitlin Kratter (Univ. of Arizona)
• 5:10 pm: Formation of Free-Floating Planets | (view video) — Elisa Quintana (NASA GSFC)
• 5:50 pm: Adjourn
• 7:00 pm: Workshop Dinner at El Cholo

Thursday, August 10

• 9:00 am: NASA's Next Astrophysics Flagship: The Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) | (view video) — Bertrand Mennesson (JPL)
• 9:40 am: Overview of the WFIRST Microlensing Survey | (view video) — Matthew Penny (The Ohio State University)
• 10:20 am: Morning Coffee Break
• 10:45 am: Galactic Structure Measured from Microlensing | (view video) — Marc Moniez (LAL IN2P3)
• 11:25 am: Models of the Galaxy and Bulge | (view video) — Annie Robin (Institut Utinam)
• 12:05 pm: Lunch
• 1:30 pm: Gaia Constraints on Galactic Structure and Extinction with an emphasis on Gaia performance in crowded fields — Camilla Danielski (OBSPM)
• 2:10 pm: Astrometric Microlensing with Gaia with an emphasis on the technical aspects of making astrometric measurements in crowded fields | (view video) — Lukasz Wyrzykowski (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw)
• 2:40 pm: Proper Motions with WFIRST | (view video) — Kailash Sahu (STScI)
• 3:20 pm: Afternoon Coffee Break
• 3:40 pm: Hands-On Sessions IV: preparation for presentations
• 6:30 pm: Adjourn

Friday, August 11

• 9:00 am: Euclid Microlensing | (view video) — Jean-Philippe Beaulieu (IAP)
• 9:40 am: Asteroseismology with WFIRST | (view video) — Daniel Huber (University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy)
• 10:20 am: Transiting Planets from WFIRST | (view video) — Ben Montet (University of Chicago)
• 11:00 am: Morning Coffee Break
• 11:30 am: Variable Stars from Current and Future Microlensing Surveys — Dorota Skowron (Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw)
• 12:10 pm: NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program | (view video) — Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL)
• 12:40 pm: Lunch
• 1:40 pm: Group Project Presentations
• 3:40 pm: Survey and Closing Comments
• 4:10 pm: Adjourn

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